dancinggeometry wrote:
Eighty percent of the lights at Hotel California are on at 8 p.m. a certain evening. However, forty percent of the lights that are supposed to be off are actually on and ten percent of the lights that are supposed to be on are actually off. What percent of the lights that are on are supposed to be off?
A. 22(2/9)%
B. 16(2/3)%
C. 11(1/9)%
D. 10%
E. 5%
We can let the total number of lights be 100 and let n = the number of lights supposed to be switched off. Thus, 100 - n = the number of lights
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